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TVLSI
2008
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13 years 4 months ago
Body Bias Voltage Computations for Process and Temperature Compensation
With continued scaling into the sub-90nm regime, the role of process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations on the performance of VLSI circuits has become extremely important. T...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...
ASPDAC
2006
ACM
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13 years 10 months ago
Mathematically assisted adaptive body bias (ABB) for temperature compensation in gigascale LSI systems
— Process variations and temperature variations can cause both the frequency and the leakage of the chip to vary significantly from their expected values, thereby decreasing the...
Sanjay V. Kumar, Chris H. Kim, Sachin S. Sapatneka...
ASPDAC
2009
ACM
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13 years 11 months ago
Scheduled voltage scaling for increasing lifetime in the presence of NBTI
— Negative Bias Temperature Instability (NBTI) is a leading reliability concern for integrated circuits (ICs). It gradually increases the threshold voltages of PMOS transistors, ...
Lide Zhang, Robert P. Dick
DAC
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Design optimizations for microprocessors at low temperature
We investigate trade-offs in microprocessor frequency and system power achievable for low temperature operation in scaled high leakage technologies by combining refrigeration with...
Arman Vassighi, Ali Keshavarzi, Siva Narendra, Ger...
ICCAD
2003
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
Combined Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Adaptive Body Biasing for Heterogeneous Distributed Real-time Embedded Systems
Abstract— Dynamic voltage scaling (DVS) is a powerful technique for reducing dynamic power consumption in a computing system. However, as technology feature size continues to sca...
Le Yan, Jiong Luo, Niraj K. Jha